Divine Fighting Technique prerequisite for cleric


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Hi all.

A cleric, inquisitor, or warpriest who worships a deity can always choose to give up either the first power of one of her domains or a minor blessing benefit to gain access to that god’s divine fighting technique without having to meet the Divine Fighting Techniques technique’s prerequisites (including the Divine Fighting Technique feat).

It then goes on to specify: In addition, a warpriest can always give up a major blessing to gain the advanced benefit without meeting its prerequisite. In a few cases, other classes can gain the benefits by sacrificing class features, as noted in the appropriate divine fighting techniques.

So, the question is, if a Cleric give up the first power of one of their domains for this they have only Initial Benefit(s) without taking the Divine Fighting Feat, or do hey get the Advanced benefit to?

Example: Divine Fighting Divine Fighting say so "A chaotic good fighter or swashbuckler of at least 10th level who worships such a god can replace a bonus feat or deed with the following advanced benefit, even if he doesn’t meet the prerequisites".
How can cleric of Cayden Caylean can take those advanced benefit?


The domain loss gives them the feat and first part. Not advanced. Meet the prereqs


In Pathfinder, as a design rule, you only get what something say you get (and can only do what something says you can do). The feat description mentions only two ways to get the advanced benefit of a DFT.

1) Take the feat and meet the advanced prereqs.
2) Be a Warpriest and replace a major blessing with the advanced benefit.

Some DFTs themself offer a third way:
3) Fulfill the condition of the optional replacement, if your DFT has one.

Clerics don't get something not mentioned, that's not how the game works. There is no automatic fill-in. The feat description doesn't say Clerics can get the advanced benefits in any alternative way, therefor they can't.

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